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Your first hire. Your first alpha product. Your first user. Your first paying customer. All of them are important inflection points as you forge your company forward. From the beginning, boldstart has been in the trenches with passionate technical founders at every milestone along their journey. And even better, those same founders continue to be an integral part of the boldstart family, ready to lend their experience to help you navigate the tangled path of building a successful company.
Beginning of timeline
02.12.2025
xNilio: boldstart leads inception round
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01.30.2025
Clay: Announces new round: "Clay, A Secret Weapon For Anthropic And OpenAI, Boosts Valuation To $1.3 Billion" Forbes
06.27.2024
Clay: Announces $46M Series B led by Meritech and prior rounds (Bloomberg). Read more on our investment (Medium).
Read more about Clay »
01.29.2025
Baz: Baz announces $9M Inception round co-led by boldstart ventures and Battery Ventures for automating code review with AI-context. More on why we invested
08.14.2023
Baz: boldstart partners with Baz and co-leads Inception round with Battery Ventures
Read more about Baz »
01.27.2025
Agentuity: Agentuity, cloud infrastructure rebuilt for AI agents, announces $4M Inception round led by boldstartvc with Bloomberg Beta, Southern Equity, and 161ventures
01.17.2025
Agentuity: boldstart leads Inception round
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01.22.2025
Grepr: Grepr announces $9M Inception round with Andreesen Horowitz and boldstart ventures to lead the next wave of reliability (more on why we invested)
05.18.2023
Grepr: boldstart partners with Grepr at Inception with Andreessen Horowitz
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12.18.2024
dylibso (MCP.run): Announces the extensible MCP Server: mcp.run: an "app store" & registry for servlets. Search, install & manage secure & portable tools for AI, wherever it goes - desktop, mobile, edge, server, etc.
03.24.2023
dylibso (MCP.run): Announced $6.6M Series Seed round (TechCrunch) led by Felicis with participation from prior investor boldstart. Read more about our investment on Medium
Read more about dylibso (MCP.run) »
11.14.2024
Tessl: Tessl announces $125M of total funding with $25M Seed round led by boldstart and GV and $100M Series led by Index and including Accel and previous investors boldstart and GV (TechCrunch) and Tessl blog. More on why we invested into Guy Podjarny for a third time and why we're
up for Tessl!
03.08.2024
Tessl: boldstart partners with Tessl and co-leads Inception round with GV
Read more about Tessl »
11.13.2024
Systalyze: boldstart partners at with Systalyze at Inception with GV
Read more about Systalyze »
10.22.2024
CrewAI: CrewAI announces $18M inception and Series A led by Insight Partners. More on Medium VentureBeat and Techcrunch
03.01.2024
CrewAI: boldstart partners with CrewAI and leads inception round
Read more about CrewAI »
10.02.2024
Snyk: Snyk's AI Native SAST product crosses the $100M ARR milestone (Forbes) + company release
01.24.2023
Snyk: ServiceNow joins Series G investing $25M into Snyk
Read more about Snyk »
09.03.2024
Hypernative: Announced $16M Series A Round (company post) including strategic partner Quantstamp + existing investors boldstart ventures, IBI Tech Fund, CMT Digital, Bloccelerate, and Borderless to expand into new verticals and build a Web3 security network (more from The Block)
01.30.2023
Hypernative: Announced $9M seed round (TechCrunch) led by boldstart + IBI Tech Fund, including Blockdaemon, CMT Digital, Alchemy. More on why we invested.
Read more about Hypernative »
06.04.2024
CodeYam: Introducing CodeYam: The Software Simulator
01.26.2023
CodeYam: Announced $4.2 seed round (CoinDesk) led by boldstart and gumi Cryptos Capital, with participation from Mysten Labs, Tribe Capital, Matrixport, Charge Ventures, Builder Capital, Alliance DAO and Meltem Demirors. More on why we invested.
Read more about CodeYam »
04.29.2024
02.18.2020
Optic: boldstart partners with founder of Optic, Aidan Cunniffe
Read more about Optic »
12.20.2023
Tres: Announced $11M Series A (coindesk.com) led by Faction and including existing investors boldstart, and New Form Capital. More on why we doubled down on our initial investment.
09.20.2022
Tres: Announced $7.6M seed round led by boldstart and including F2, Mantis, Blockdaemon, New Form, Kenetic. More on why we invested.
Read more about Tres »
12.11.2023
AtomicJar: AtomicJar acquired by Docker, read more on TechCrunch and AtomicJar's blog.
01.25.2023
AtomicJar: $25M Series A led by Insight Partners. (TechCrunch)
Read more about AtomicJar »
11.08.2023
Zuplo: Announced $9M seed round (GeekWire) led by boldstart + Trilogy Equity Partners. More on why we invested.
10.25.2021
Zuplo: boldstart inception round
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11.02.2023
Jeli: Jeli acquired by PagerDuty, read more on Techcrunch and Jeli's blog.
09.28.2022
Jeli: Jeli announces $15M Series A led by Addition, launch of incident response tooling
Read more about Jeli »
09.14.2023
Spectro Cloud: $20M Strategic Round led by Qualcomm Ventures
03.23.2022
Spectro Cloud: $40M Series B led by Stripes including T-Mobile
Read more about Spectro Cloud »
07.26.2023
Protect AI: Announced $35M Series A round (TechCrunch) led by Evolution Equity w/Salesforce Ventures
12.15.2022
Protect AI: Announced $13.5M seed round (TechCrunch) led by boldstart + Acrew Capital, including Pelion Ventures. More on why we invested.
Read more about Protect AI »
07.11.2023
Roadie: Announced Announced $3.7M seed round (PRWeb) led by boldstart + Firstminute Capital.
08.28.2020
Roadie: boldstart inception round
Read more about Roadie »
07.11.2023
Olympix: Announced $4.3M seed round (coindesk.com) led by boldstart. More on why we invested.
08.22.2022
Olympix: boldstart inception round
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06.28.2023
Memphis: Announced $5.5M seed round (TechCrunch) led by boldstart + Angular Ventures. More on why we invested.
02.01.2023
Memphis: boldstart first check
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05.15.2023
Kustomer: Kustomer spins out from Meta, raises initial $60M from Battery, Redpoint, boldstart
11.30.2020
Kustomer: Facebook acquires Kustomer for $1B
Read more about Kustomer »
03.24.2023
dope.security: Announced $16M Series A round (TechCrunch) led by GV with participation from existing investors boldstart and Preface
09.14.2022
dope.security: Announced $4M seed round led by boldstart and including Preface, Tribe Capital. More on why we invested.
Read more about dope.security »
02.27.2023
Cycle: Announced $6M Venture round (Techcrunch) led by boldstart. More on why we invested.
12.01.2019
Cycle: boldstart inception round
Read more about Cycle »
08.08.2022
Kumospace: Announced $21M Series A led by Lightspeed
04.21.2021
Kumospace: Announced $3M Series Seed led by Boldstart
Read more about Kumospace »
07.07.2022
Sling: Acquired by Toast (TOST)
11.12.2015
Sling: $600K Seed Round led by boldstart and New Business Venture Fund
Read more about Sling »
06.28.2022
Front: $65M Series D led by Salesforce Ventures and Battery Ventures at $1.7B valuation
01.22.2020
Front: $59M Series C
Read more about Front »
06.22.2022
CloudQuery: $15M Series A led by Tiger Global. More on our follow on investment and day one partnership.
11.11.2021
CloudQuery: Announced $3.5M seed led by boldstart
Read more about CloudQuery »
06.15.2022
Jit: Announced $38.5M seed round led by boldstart, Insight Partners, Tiger Global, and TechAviv
09.05.2021
Jit: Emerges out of stealth
Read more about Jit »
06.06.2022
Stellate:
08.11.2021
Stellate: Partnered with Tim Suchanek and Max Stoiber, founders of GraphCDN (today known as Stellate).
Read more about Stellate »
06.03.2022
Reco:
11.12.2020
Reco: Boldstart leads $4.2M Seed Round in Reco with Angular Ventures and Angels.
Read more about Reco »
05.04.2022
Amberdata: $30M Series B led by Knollwood with Nasdaq Ventures, NAB Ventures, Chicago Trading Company, Nexo, Coinbase and Innovius; alongside existing investors Citi, Franklin Templeton, and boldstart.
09.14.2021
Amberdata: Raises $15M in Series A Financing Led by Citigroup
Read more about Amberdata »
04.28.2022
Smallstep: $19M Series A led StepStone with Accel, Bain, and Boldstart following on. More on our day one partnership here and also on the company's blog.
09.16.2016
Smallstep: boldstart first check
Read more about Smallstep »
03.16.2022
Liveblocks: Announced $5M seed round led by boldstart and including Atlassian, Seedcamp, Kima Ventures. More on why we invested.
09.16.2021
Liveblocks: $1.4M pre-seed co-led by boldstart and Seedcamp
Read more about Liveblocks »
03.09.2022
Upstream: Boldstart doubles down, leading Upstream's Series A to easily create and run a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations). Read more about the round on Forbes.
11.15.2019
Upstream: Alex and Michael sell SocialRank assets. Then they launch Upstream, a new product making it easy to start and run small communities mobile first.
Read more about Upstream »
03.02.2022
Catalytic, Inc.: Acquired by PagerDuty
02.04.2019
Catalytic, Inc.: $30M Series B led by Intel Capital
Read more about Catalytic, Inc. »
03.02.2022
StakeWise: Announced initial investment co-led by boldstart ventures and Blockdaemon
Read more about StakeWise »
03.01.2022
Common Paper: Announced $4.5M seed co-led by boldstart ventures and Uncork. More on Why We Invested.
Read more about Common Paper »
01.27.2022
Blockdaemon: $207M Series C at $3.25B valuation co-led by Sapphire and Tiger Global
09.21.2021
Blockdaemon: $155M Series B at $1.255B valuation led by Softbank Vision Fund II and including Goldman Sachs, Sapphire...
Read more about Blockdaemon »
01.27.2022
Fireblocks: $550M Series E at $8B valuation co-led by D1 Cap, Spark, including GA, Index
07.27.2021
Fireblocks: Announces $310M Series D co led by Sequoia, Spark, and Stripes
Read more about Fireblocks »
01.26.2022
Slim.AI, Inc.: $31M Series A co-led by Insight Partners and StepStone Group
01.12.2021
Slim.AI, Inc.: $6.6M Series Seed led by boldstart
Read more about Slim.AI, Inc. »
12.23.2021
FortressIQ: Acquired by Automation Anywhere
05.13.2020
FortressIQ: $30M Series B led by M12 and Tiger Global Management
Read more about FortressIQ »
08.04.2021
Superhuman: $75M Series C led by IVP
09.24.2019
Superhuman: Performance metrics for blazingly fast web apps
Read more about Superhuman »
07.27.2021
Replicated, Inc.: $50M Series C led by Owl Rock Capital
10.27.2020
Replicated, Inc.: $25M Series B led by Two Sigma Ventures
Read more about Replicated, Inc. »
06.24.2021
EnvZero: $17M Series A led by M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
07.16.2020
EnvZero: $3.5M Round led by Crescendo Venture Partners
Read more about EnvZero »
06.15.2021
UtilizeCore: $5.3M Series Seed Led by boldstart (Medium)
03.01.2020
UtilizeCore: Founded by Ryan Gottfried, Johnny Zhu, and Jason Kwait.
Read more about UtilizeCore »
04.22.2021
BigID Inc.: $30M extension led by Advent boosts Series D to $100M at $1.25B valuation
12.16.2020
BigID Inc.: $70M Series D led by Tiger Global Management
Read more about BigID Inc. »
04.20.2021
Cape AI: $20M Series A
06.24.2020
Cape AI: $5M Seed led by boldstart and Version One Ventures
Read more about Cape AI »
03.18.2021
Security Scorecard, Inc.: $180M Series E
06.13.2019
Security Scorecard, Inc.: $50M Series D
Read more about Security Scorecard, Inc. »
02.17.2021
boldstart $155M Fund V and $75M Opportunities II
01.27.2021
Manifold: Acquired by Snyk
09.22.2017
Manifold: $18.5M Series A led by OMERS Ventures
Read more about Manifold »
11.16.2020
Harbr Data: $38.5M Series A led by Dawn Capital and Tiger Global Management
05.22.2019
Harbr Data: boldstart first check
Read more about Harbr Data »
05.26.2020
Steadybit: boldstart partners with Steadybit, read more coverage on their seed round on Techcrunch and blog post.
Read more about Steadybit »
11.12.2019
$157M boldstart IV
11.01.2019
IOpipe, Inc.: Acquired by New Relic
08.24.2018
IOpipe, Inc.: $2M Seed led by boldstart
Read more about IOpipe, Inc. »
06.11.2019
MState: MState invests in FireBlocks $16M first round
11.07.2017
MState: invests alongside Boldstart in Blockdaemon's first round
Read more about MState »
06.06.2019
HYPR Corporation: $23.3M Series B led by Comcast Ventures
08.30.2017
HYPR Corporation: $8M Series A led by RRE Ventures
Read more about HYPR Corporation »
04.24.2019
Auxon: boldstart first check
12.17.2018
Auxon: Founded
Read more about Auxon »
03.01.2019
Robin Powered, Inc.: $20M Series B
05.31.2016
Robin Powered, Inc.: $7M Series A
Read more about Robin Powered, Inc. »
10.05.2018
RebelMail: Acquired by Salesforce
06.10.2014
RebelMail: $2M Seed
Read more about RebelMail »
06.07.2018
Wallaroo Labs: $5.3M Seed round led by Eniac Ventures, RRE Ventures
07.10.2017
Wallaroo Labs: boldstart first check
Read more about Wallaroo Labs »
10.04.2017
Init.ai: Acquired by Apple
02.02.2016
Init.ai: boldstart first check
Read more about Init.ai »
10.04.2017
Tilt: boldstart first check
08.01.2017
Tilt: Founded
Read more about Tilt »
06.06.2017
Yhat, Inc.: Acquired by Alteryx, Inc
02.09.2015
Yhat, Inc.: Joins YC S2015
Read more about Yhat, Inc. »
11.15.2016
$47M boldstart Ventures III
04.12.2016
ChangeTip: ChangeTip sold to Airbnb
12.02.2014
ChangeTip: Changetip Announces 3.5M Seed Round
Read more about ChangeTip »
05.19.2014
Divide (fka Enterproid): Acquired by Google
11.08.2010
Divide (fka Enterproid): boldstart first check
Read more about Divide (fka Enterproid) »
03.11.2014
$16.9M boldstart Ventures LP II
07.01.2013
Wonder: boldstart first check
10.01.2012
Wonder: Founded
Read more about Wonder »
07.09.2012
GoInstant: Acquired by Salesforce
06.26.2011
GoInstant: boldstart first check
Read more about GoInstant »
02.22.2012
Rapportive: Acquired by LinkedIn
06.10.2011
Rapportive: boldstart first check
Read more about Rapportive »
06.15.2011
Yipit Data: $6M Series B led by Highland Capital Partners
06.30.2010
Yipit Data: $1.3M Series A
Read more about Yipit Data »
02.08.2011
Blaze Software: Acquired by Akamai
02.01.2011
Blaze Software: boldstart first check
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04.23.2010
boldstart Certificate of Formation filed with DE
04.01.2010
$1M boldstart Fund I
11.01.2009
Ed and Eliot are introduced by Jim Pitkow